DataRobot to Partner with Monsanto Company on Artificial Intelligence
Initiatives

Global Agriculture Company will use the DataRobot Automated Machine
Learning Platform to Build and Deploy Highly Accurate Machine Learning
Models across Business Functions

March 07, 2018 11:38 AM Eastern Standard Time

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataRobot,
the pioneer in automated machine learning, today announced that Monsanto
Company has selected the DataRobot automated machine learning platform
to enable its Artificial Intelligence initiatives.

Monsanto is a global modern agriculture company that develops products
and digital tools to help farmers around the world grow crops while
using energy, water and land more efficiently. Monsanto will leverage
the DataRobot platform to improve data processes with automated and
predictive analytics models that will provide insights across the
company’s core business functions including research & development,
supply chain, and sales.

DataRobot is the world’s only software that puts the power of AI into
the hands of any business user. DataRobot pre-packages and automates the
data science workflow, enabling users to build and deploy highly
accurate predictive models in a fraction of the time of traditional
methods.

“The complexity of agriculture has rapidly increased in recent years and
AI will be critical to the continuing transformation of agriculture and
Monsanto,” said Naveen Singla, Monsanto’s data science center of
excellence lead and director of analytics. “Accelerating application of
machine learning is a key enabler of AI and DataRobot’s platform and
partnership will be important for Monsanto in this regard.”

Anthony Randall, Monsanto’s digital strategic alliance lead, said that
DataRobot’s usability was the icing on the cake. “DataRobot not only
empowered our data scientists by making them more productive, but is
starting to democratize machine learning for our business analysts and
data managers. The software itself is easy to use and understand. It is
simple and gives clear results,” Randall said. “It will be impactful to
our organization and integral in advancing our overall AI strategy.”

“It is fantastic to have Monsanto join our team,” said Jeremy Achin, CEO
of DataRobot. “Sustainable food production is one of the most important
issues facing our generation, and we’re proud that Monsanto has chosen
DataRobot to help lead their path forward.”

DataRobot offers an enterprise machine learning platform that empowers
users of all skill levels to make better predictions faster.
Incorporating a library of hundreds of the most powerful open source
machine learning algorithms, the DataRobot platform automates, trains
and evaluates predictive models in parallel, delivering more accurate
predictions at scale. DataRobot provides the fastest path to data
science success for organizations of all sizes. For more information,
visit www.datarobot.com.